Lady’s Slipper. *N.O. Orchidaceae. Tincture and infusions of fresh root gathered in autumn.
Clinical
Brain affections. Chorea. Convulsions. Debility and sleeplessness. Delirium tremens. Ecstasy. Epilepsy. Mental despondency. Nervous debility. Neuralgia. Post-influenzal debility. Sleeplessness. Spermatorrhea. Stye.
Characteristics
*Cypr. has great repute as a “nervine” among eclectics, and in domestic practice. It ranks with *Scutellaria and *Valerian. A strong infusion causes exhilaration followed by calmness, and is much resorted to by women whose nerves are shattered by long illness, or excessive indulgence in green-tea or coffee (Hale). It is suited to nervous disorders from mental over-excitement, or reflex nervous excitement, to nervous weakness following influenza. It is indicated in the brain-hyperaesthesia of children who wake in the night lively and full of play. Ecstasy, preliminary to incipient brain disorder. Epilepsy from reflex irritation. Jactitation and trembling, twitching of limbs.
Relations.
*Compare: Ambra. Coca, Ignatia, Kali-br. Paul., Thea, Scut., Valer., Zincum met. In ecstasy, Coffea. *Antidote to: Rhus poisoning.
SYMPTOMS.
Mind
Irascibility and fitfulness, hysterical symptoms, sleeplessness, agitation. Indifference.
Head
Vertigo followed by heaviness and dragging of left foot.
Eyes
Stye on right. lower lid.
Male Sexual Organs.
Spermatorrhea with great nervous prostration and dejection of spirits.
Female Sexual Organs.
Amenorrhea, with hysteria. Great nervous debility and despondency. Irritability of vagina, hysterical symptoms, sleeplessness and agitation.
Sleep
Sleeplessness: with desire to talk, a constant crowding of pleasant ideas, with restlessness of body, twitching of limbs, after miscarriage for several nights in succession. Ecstasy, children awaken in night from sleep, “wide-awake,” unnaturally playful, with no desire to go to sleep again (often a preliminary to some brain affection.).
